TAP 26 b tagged posts

Artist’s impression of a “hot Jupiter”. Credit: Ricardo Cardoso Reis (CAUP)

Astronomers have detected a new “hot Jupiter” exoplanet orbiting a nearby T Tauri star known as TAP 26. The newly detected alien world, designated TAP 26 b, is about 66% more massive than Jupiter and is orbiting its parent star approximately every 10 days. Located 480 light years away, TAP 26 belongs to the T Tauri class of variable pre-main-sequence stars. With a mass similar to that of the sun, TAP 26 has a radius of 1.17 solar radii and is about 17 million years old.

Such young forming T Tauri stars could provide important information about the formation and early evolution of planetary systems...